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Given the decomposition, the heat, the rain, investigators figured the body had lain there for a while. >> it had been out there several days. >> reporter: gwinnett county police detective brad everson. >> no clothing whatsoever. >> any obvious injuries to the body? lacerations? blunt force trauma? gunshot, stab wound? anything you could see? >> nothing. and of course at this point there's no -- there's no identifying documents around it, so there's nothing around where the body's at that would indicate what happened. >> reporter: in the way of these things, dental records confirmed what every...

There was a high level of the date rape drug ghb in her system. >> so now you're thinking maybe sometime before this woman's death, almost immediately before, someone gave her date rape drug? >> that's a possibility. >> correct. >> reporter: had nique somehow been abducted, raped and then dumped less than a mile from her home? the detective couldn't say. but in the days before her body was found, while this was still a missing person's case, nique's husband matt had told everson something intriguing on the phone. this wasn't the first time nique leili had walked out on him. >> my wife has a lo...

To process the news, amy faced the microphones and once again became the family's voice. >> all we saw was her hair. um, you know, so we're just waiting for the police to do their job and we'll find out more soon. >> inside the police tape, investigators carefully uncovered the body of a middle-aged female. she was nude, lying face-down and, tellingly, appeared to have a fresh pink pedicure. given the decomposition, the heat, the rain, investigators figured the body had lain there for awhile. >> it had been out there several days. >> gwinnett county police detective brad everson. >> no clothin...

Identifying things around it. so there's nothing around where the body is at that would indicate what happened. >> in the way of these things, dental records confirmed what everyone suspected. the body in the woods was indeed that of nique leili. >> a telling factor was the bottoms of her feet were clean. >> what does that tell you? connect the dots for me. >> that tells you she didn't walk out there and put herself in those woods, and she sure wasn't going to cover herself up. >> later, lab analysis of nique's blood revealed something else that was odd. there was a high level of the date rape...

By the time searchers found nicky leili's body, police detective brad everson already knew bits and pieces of her life story. he had been working her case since she was reported a few days earlier. >> i had already talked to her dad, talked to her mom, talked to both her sisters, you know, talked to her oldest daughter. >> the picture that emerged was of a woman whose life had revolved around her work, her daughters and her husband, matt. >> he would come sometimes and do lunch with nique. >> did she ever talk about her girls? >> yes. yeah. she was very proud of all three girls. yes. >> photos...